William Butos was awarded the 2013 O.P. Alford III Prize for his paper Monetary Orders and Institutions: A Hayekian Perspective . The prize is given to the author of the paper that best advances libertarian
Detlev Schlichter reviews David Stockman’s new book The Great Deformation . It provides a nice summery of the book. The New York book signing event is May 21st.
David Stockman is interviewed here on the Austro-friendly Power Trading Radio by John O’Donnell. Reservations are required for the David Stockman book signing event in New York on May
Speech by Charles I. Plosser , President and Chief Executive Officer, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. Can we end too big to fail? I think we can, but I believe the current efforts may come up short. If we are to end discretionary bailouts and the associated moral hazard problems that they create, we should seek more rule-like methods to
I just had a long conversation with a longtime member of the Mises Institute. We discussed the economy, gold investments, and the great Burt Blumert. I thought it would be worthwhile to post Burt’s Wikipedia entry here for both all the people who admired Burt and younger members and scholars who did not have the pleasure of knowing Burt. He was a
There is now a Wikipedia entry on William H. Peterson available here . Dr. Peterson was a student of Ludwig von Mises, a prominent business economist, and a great man.
The Journal of Prices & Markets , published by the Ludwig von Mises Institute of Canada, is a journal that seeks to improve the understanding of the role of markets in the economy. Submissions should seek to shed light on contemporary issues while being grounded in a praxeological reasoning. Prices & Markets welcomes submissions from a variety of
What is the Mises Institute?
The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard.
Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property order. We believe that our foundational ideas are of permanent value, and oppose all efforts at compromise, sellout, and amalgamation of these ideas with fashionable political, cultural, and social doctrines inimical to their spirit.
